Xinyao Zhou
PhD
Assistant Professor
FinanceFaculty of Business and Information Technology
Dr. Zhou's research interests includes empirical asset pricing, financial econometrics, and international finance. Specifically, he investigates how certain factors impact financial markets, such as investor attention, social interaction, media news announcements, and macroeconomic news announcements.
xinyao.zhou@ontariotechu.ca
905.721.8668 ext. 5393
Areas of expertise
- PhD - Finance Schulich School of Business, York University
- MSc - Science Goodman School of Business, Brock University
- BA - Business Administration Harbin Institute of Technology
- “Does Social Interaction Spread Fear among Institutional Investors? Evidence from COVID-19” With Shiu-Yik Au, and Ming Dong, Management Science, Forthcoming.
- “The Dynamic Effect of Macroeconomic News on the Euro/US Dollar Exchange Rate,” with Walid Ben Omrane, and Robert Welch, Journal of Forecasting, vol. 39-1, 2020, pp. 84-103.
- “Time-varying Effects of Macroeconomic News on the Euro-Dollar returns,” with Walid Ben Omrane, Tanseli Savaser, and Robert Welch, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 50, 2019, pp. 1-20.
- “Macroeconomic News and Exchange Rate Volatility: Evidence of Unstable Effect,” with Walid Ben Omrane, and Robert Welch, Handbook of Global Financial Markets, Editors: Boubaker, S. and Nguyen, D., World Scientific, 2018.
- “Exchange Rate Reaction to Trade Balance News,” with Walid Ben Omrane and Tanseli Savaser, Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade, Editors: Rivera-Batiz, F.L. and Erbil, C., World Scientific, 2018.
- SSHRC Partner Engagement Grant (PEG) 2022-2023
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR $24,156 - SSHRC Internal Explore Grant 2022-2023
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR $6,527 - SSHRC Internal Exchange Grant 2022-2023
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR $2,000 - SSHRC Insights Grant (IG) 2022-2026
CO-INVESTIGATOR $125,861”
- Business applications of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
- Finance II
